Kampung Benya.

Tonight was particularly dark, not only did there be no moonlight, but even the stars did not come to join in the fun, perhaps smelling the abnormal atmosphere of the battle between the Ming army and the Portuguese army, the fishermen no longer frolicked around the door, they had already fallen asleep, and dozens of Portuguese soldiers stationed in the village had been ordered to rush to the city of Malacca, ready to prevent the Ming army from landing in the waterway.

In the open sea of Kampung Benya, more than 20 ships and transport ships of the Ming army were quietly rising and falling with the wind and waves, when suddenly, a bonfire was lit on the shore, which was immediately extinguished, and so on three times, and the bonfire was never seen again.

The lights on the ship were also turned on three times, then turned off, and the original darkness was restored.

Under the blowing of the east wind, the ships slowly sailed towards the shore, except for the sail and helmsman, the rest of the soldiers remained motionless, as if completely asleep, and behind these ships were a large number of transport ships.

The sea breeze and waves obscured all the slightest movement.

As it approached the shore, the Fubune struck to the left sideways, pointing its port gun at the embankment, and the transport ship following behind it was moving at full speed and sailing directly onto the beach.

Soldiers cautiously climbed onto the beach, some carrying small mountain cannons on their shoulders.

They were so careful, the village was surprisingly quiet now, the villagers had already fallen asleep, it was the time of the deepest night's sleep, and the Portuguese soldiers had all withdrawn in the afternoon to defend the city of Malacca.

Even the dogs did not notice the anomalies on the shore.

The first to log in the marines began to set up mountain guns behind the hard rocks on the shore to establish a preliminary defensive formation, and the soldiers behind continued to rush ashore, and the defensive formation became larger and larger until all the marines came ashore.

The soldiers did not alarm the fishermen of the village, and they bypassed the village and pitched improvised tents on the side of the sea.

Zheng Xing was very excited, so far, the operation of "openly attacking Malacca and secretly ascending Kampung Village" has been surprisingly smooth, as long as he lands, he doesn't know who else can stop his progress.

He didn't plan to attack at night, he had already landed on land, and he wanted to wait until dawn to fight the Portuguese with real swords and real #guns.

It was the Fourth Marine Division that landed in Kampung Benya, Zheng Xing arranged the inspection of Minggang, the secret post and the periphery, and climbed into the camp to sleep, now there is more than an hour before dawn, first have a good rest, once the dawn enters the state of war, let alone sleep, I am afraid that there is no time to eat.

The sky was slightly bright, and Liang Yong woke up the soldiers of the 10th Brigade.

It was time for breakfast, and his soldiers, as the vanguard, had to set out half an hour early and march along the Johor waterway towards the city of Malacca.

The soldiers were woken up in their sleep, however, they did not complain, last night's beach landing was successful, and they already understood today's combat mission.

In order to speed up the march, they did not search for the width, but formed a column and ran forward, as for the Portuguese soldiers hidden in the villages and forts on both sides, they were left to the follow-up troops to clean up.

By the time the 10th Expedition arrived at Baru, it was already dark, and Liang Yong had planned to bypass Balu, but the Portuguese soldiers who had risen early found them from the city, and they sounded the alarm bell at the head of the city.

Balu used to have 200 defenders, and yesterday the South Sea Fleet tried to land from the city of Malacca, which made the Portuguese governor Manodi very nervous, and he concentrated most of the nearby soldiers in the city of Malacca, and now Balu only has 40 soldiers left.

Bahru was guarding the Johor waterway, which was originally intended to block the Ming army wading from Temasek, but now that the Ming army has landed, Bahru has lost its strategic significance.

As if the Portuguese soldiers had just woken up, forty soldiers, together with sixty local servants armed with broadswords and spears, did not resist the city, but all left the city of Baru.

They made a desperate bet to block the path of the Ming army's advance, either to defeat the Ming army and prevent the Ming army from attacking the city of Malacca, or to be wiped out by the Ming army, which had already broken through the Johor waterway, and they could not escape the punishment of Manodi when they returned to the city of Malacca.

Liang Yong found that the fire # guns held by the Portuguese soldiers were similar to the flintlock pistols of the Ming army, and he did not want the marines to give their lives in vain, "Stop advancing, and prepare the mountain artillery." ”

The mountain gun is easy to use, not only small in size and light in weight, but also very convenient to fire, a soldier # transports ammunition to load, a soldier calibrates, and can complete the launch task.

Soon, the gunner reported and completed all the preparations before the launch.

"Prepare for launch, and as soon as the shelling stops, immediately move at full speed, and the enemy must be destroyed in its entirety." There were only nearly 100 soldiers in front, and what Liang Yong wanted was total annihilation.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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In the first wave of shelling, although the landing point of the flowering shell was not accurate enough, the huge explosion still stunned the Portuguese soldiers and their servants, and they would never have dreamed that the Ming army still had such light artillery.

The accuracy of the second wave of artillery fire was greatly improved, and seven of the ten flowering shells fell on the makeshift positions of the Portuguese soldiers, and the servants, who had never seen artillery, were already trembling with fear in the loud sound and the screams of the casualties, and they did not know who had risen, and they scattered in a hurry and fled behind the formation.

The Portuguese soldiers were furious, and before the battle began, these natives were in disarray, and just as the Ming army was still far out of their range, they turned their guns and pointed them at the fleeing servants.

After leaving behind more than 20 corpses, the servant army still ran clean.

Liang Yongke didn't care about the current mood of these Portuguese, the flowering shells were fired in two waves, almost plowing the opposite position, the Portuguese soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they did not get the military order to retreat, and the soldiers who did not suffer casualties were still lying behind the gentle slope.

Liang Yong saw that there were not many Portuguese soldiers left, and it would be a waste to fire flowering shells, so he ordered the gunners to stop the shelling and have soldiers charge instead.

In front of the Portuguese soldiers, the Ming army's flintlock pistols may not have an advantage, but the Ming army has a huge advantage in numbers.

In order to avoid the flintlock pistols of the Ming army, the Portuguese soldiers shrank under the gentle slope, exposing only half of their heads.

The Ming army formed a long line of dozens of people, and three rows of soldiers advanced alternately.

The two sides began to exchange fire, both of them were fire # guns, which required constant reloading of ammunition, and the casualties were not large.

A quarter of an hour later, the exchange of fire continued, Liang used fire, how many Portuguese soldiers actually blocked the three thousand Ming troops, even if they stepped on it with their feet, this time it should be trampled to death, "Attack quickly, and all the soldiers in the front row pressed up." ”

The Ming army in the front row attacked, and the Ming army in the back also pressed up, and the Portuguese position was finally breached, forty Portuguese soldiers, nearly thirty casualties, and the remaining ten soldiers were just about to turn around and flee, and were also killed by the Ming army's random shooting.

Liang Yong did not enter the city, he had been delayed for two quarters of an hour, and Zheng Xing's army was about to arrive, he just divided a company of soldiers to capture Balu City, and he trotted all the way to Malacca City.

By the time they arrived in Pungaran, it was almost noon, and the defenders of Pungalan were also transferred to the city of Malacca, where there were only more than 100 Portuguese defenders.

Liang had no heavy artillery and could not blow up the city walls, he left three hundred soldiers to contain the defenders in the city, and led the army all the way forward, he had only one goal in mind: Malacca City, and now the Ming army's Guangchuan is still confronting the Portuguese army in Malacca City.

The sporadic Portuguese soldiers encountered along the way, because of the protection of the fortified city, were solved by Liang Yong, if it was a fortified city, it was difficult to break through for a while, he left a small number of soldiers to contain them, and the army continued to break through in the middle.

There was a rumbling cannon sound from the front, Liang Yong estimated that it should be a fierce battle between Guangchuan and the Portuguese shore artillery, he quickened the pace of the march, "Quick, the commander is fighting fiercely with the Portuguese, let's hurry over and take down their shore artillery." ”

The Portuguese shore artillery was in front, and under the nose of Liang Yong, there were many Portuguese soldiers around the fort, but the Ming and Portuguese sides were fighting fiercely, and the Portuguese were all on the waterway.

Liang Yong observed for a while and found that the shore artillery was fixed, and the muzzle of the cannon could only be aimed at the Malacca waterway, and he was ready to give full play to the advantages of the mountain artillery.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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The mountain artillery of the Marine Corps, the target is the shore artillery, and now there are Portuguese soldiers everywhere near the shore artillery, and any flowering shell will be killed or injured by some Portuguese soldiers, but Liang Yong still set the target on the shore artillery, as long as the shore artillery is dumb, the Ming soldiers on the ship can land in large numbers.

The second wave of flowering shells, most of which fell near the shore artillery, although it failed to destroy the shore artillery, caused heavy casualties to the gunners of the shore artillery.

In front of the flowering bombs, they had no protection, only the share of being beaten.

The Canton ships in the Mahacca waterway, under the help of the mountain artillery, poured more flowering shells on the Portuguese positions, and after half an hour of fighting, all the Portuguese shore guns were silent, and the shore guns were not damaged, but there were no gunners - the gunners did not die under the flowering shells, but were fled.

Liang Yong asked the gunner to adjust the landing point of the flowering shells, and since the shore guns had been muted, the flowering shells fired at the places where the Portuguese soldiers were concentrated.

The Portuguese soldiers could not support it and gradually retreated to the city of Malacca.

Liang Yong saw that the marines on the transport ship began to land, so he launched a general attack on the Portuguese soldiers, 3,000 marines, armed with flintlock pistols and machetes at their waists, they rushed towards the Portuguese soldiers as if they were not dying, and even stepped over the corpses of their comrades, they did not hesitate.

The Portuguese soldiers were finally completely defeated, and under the personal command of Manodi, the soldiers gradually retreated to the city of Malacca.

The shore guns finally fell into the hands of Liang Yong, and seeing that there were several Portuguese ships in the harbor, the marines took over the guns and aimed them at these ships.

The Canton ships in the Malacca waterways took the opportunity to drop a large number of flowering bombs at the Portuguese ships in the harbor.

There were shore guns on land, naval guns in the waterways, and the few remaining Portuguese ships had fallen under the siege of the Ming army, but the Portuguese soldiers who met them had retreated to the city of Malacca, and in desperation, these ships raised white flags and surrendered to the Ming army.